Mar 29,
Northamptonshire,
Winchester House SchoolMar 28,
Northamptonshire,
Newbottle & Charlton Primary School, Culworth Primary School
March 4,
London,
MONSTERVILLE Final Party at Discover story centre in Stratford, draw-off with Ed Vere
Feb 27,
London,
Pop-Up Festival Schools Day, working with local schools in Hoxton
Feb 22,
Bedford,
Kempston Library Children's Book Festival, working with local schools
Feb 18,
London,
IMAGINE Festival, South Bank
Jan 4 & 5,
Paris,
Paris Manga & Sci-Fi Show with Emma Vieceli (creator of Dragon Heir) at Aaltair book stall.
Click here to read the rest of the travel comic!2011Sept 13,
London, chaired panel with Paul Gravett:
Thinking Outside the Box: new publishing opportunities in comics & graphic novels for children & young adults, a joint Society of Authors/ Comica Festival event
Sept 10,
London,
Lewisham Literary Festival, For Books' Sake panel with Ellen Lindner & Karen McLeod
Sept 9,
Dublin, pirate adventures with Maynooth Boys National School and St Brigid’s National School
Sept 8,
Dublin, Eason's bookshop
Illustrators Evening with Oliver Jeffers & PJ LynchSept 6,
London, drew for charity at
Klimb Children's Illustration Auction, organised by Garry Parsons
Aug 23 & 24,
Edinburgh,
Edinburgh Book Festival
Aug 10,
Leicester,
Leicester Library events
July 4,
London Pop Up Festival of Stories, Holborn library
June 4,
Birmingham Birmingham Young Readers literary festivalMay 30 & 31,
Hay-on-Wye Hay-on-Wye Literary FestivalMay 28,
London, Stratford Discover Centre -
MONSTERVILLE Grand Opening!
May 6,
Essex Roding Primary School - Scholastic book fair and cutting the ribbon for a the new library
April 16 & 17,
Portland, Oregon Stumptown Comics FestivalApril 9 & 10,
New York City MoCCA Comics FestivalApril 3,
Oxford, Oxford,
Sunday Times Oxford Literary FestivalMarch 12,
London, London Comics & Small Press Expo, shared table with The Fleece Station, Goldsmith's University, New Cross
March 5,
Surrey Surrey Libraries Children's Book Festival, Comics Jam workshop at Ewell Library and Design-Your-own-Alien workshop at Stoneleigh Library
Feb 9,
Bishop's Stortford,
Bishop's Stortford Festival of Literature, Two comics workshops and prize ceremony with Giles Andreae and Gillian Rogerson
Giles Andreae & Sarah McIntyre</b>Jan 28,
Battersea, London, Newton Prep school,
Wild Railway Adventure!Jan 25,
Chelmsford, Essex Officially opened the Just Imagine storytelling centre with writer Steve Cole and led a joint workshop, Make-a-Monster Mega-Challenge!
Write-up and photos here
2010Nov 26,
London Drayton Park School, Islington,
Monster comic book workshopNov 23,
Sheffield Accepted Best Picture Book and Best Overall Book awards at the
Sheffield Children's Book Award Ceremony; included library workshop.
Nov 20,
Leeds,
Thought Bubble comics festival
Nov 13-14,
Winchester,
SCBWI Winter Conference, panel talks
Nov 10,
London, Thornhill Primary School, Islington
Monster comic book workshopNov 6,
Oxford,
Oxford Children's Book Group open conference, Oxford University Press: Presentation with writer/illustrator Layn Marlow on Hopping the Gap Between Words and Pictures. Other speakers included writers Philip Pullman & Mary Hoffman.
Oct 29-31
London ExCel Centre,
MCM ExpoFleece Station booth, plus Sat, 30 Oct: DFC Library drawing battle! Contestants: the Etherington Brothers (Monkey Nuts), Neill Cameron (Mo-Bot High) and Sarah McIntyre (Vern and Lettuce)
Oct 26 & 27,
Nottingham Game City Live mural painting in the market square's game station (
TV footage here)
Oct 25,
London, Foyles Bookshop, Charing Cross Road,
Fearfest, Kids made monsters!
Oct 23,
London,
Crystal Palace Children's Book FestivalStory and drawing fun with the illustrator of Morris the Mankiest Monster and You Can’t Eat a Princess!. For ages 4+ Organised by Alex Milway
Oct 21,
London, Stitch-a-Sheep
Vern and Lettuce launch party!!!
Oct 17,
Cheltenham,
The Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature Aliens and Monsters! Queen's Hotel, 11:30-12:15, ages 4-7
Sarah McIntyre loves monsters and aliens — they feature in many of her books such as Morris the Mankiest Monster and You Can’t Eat a Princess. Listen to stories, join in the action and make your own monster to take home! Come dressed as an alien or monster, too! Make a Comic with Sarah McIntyre Queen's Hotel, 2-4pm, ages 7-11
Bring your own pen and a lot of gusto for this action-packed comic book making workshop with Sarah McIntyre, the inventor of the Pickle Rye world, home to Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep. Her artwork is laced with silliness and humour; no wonder she's one of the original Fleece Station artists, a collective whose grand title derives from their love of drawing... sheep!
Festival's featured BookIt! illustrator, poster designOct 16,
Birmingham British International Comics Show, guest: signing
Vern and LettuceOct 12-14,
Ireland Comics workshops with studio mate Gary Northfield in conjunction with Children's Books Ireland. Visited Ceibridge, Maynooth, Leixlip, Naas, Newbridge, Athy, Trim, and Dunshauglin libraries. Appeared on Elev8 (RTE2's show for young people) in a live half-hour slot.
Oct 8,
London James Allen's Preperatory School, Dulwich
Judged the Book Week costume parade and signed copies of
Vern and Lettuce
Oct 7-10,
London Woolly duo Vern and Derek hit the Alexandra Palace
Knitting and Stitching ShowOct 2,
Bath,
Bath Kids Lit Fest, Bath Central Library
Making Friends with Aliens! Join Illustrator and comics creator Sarah McIntyre as she introduces you to her alien and monster friends in an action-packed, interactive drawing event! Come and learn Sarah’s secret tips on how to invent funny or scary characters and then make them come alive in your very own book.Sept 24 & 25,
Wigtown, southwest Scotland:
Wigtown Book Festival,
Vern and Lettuce comics schools events and
Hungry Aliens & Manky Monsters festival event
Sept 19,
London HyperComics workshop 1:30-3:30, Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park
Masked Adventures in Comics! Participants drew inspiration from the Hypercomic exhibition and Dave McKean's masked characters to design their own story's masked heroes and villains. Getting behind their masks to discover their characters' unique personalities, they used the
Pump House setting to bring them to life in a gripping story. At the end,
everyone came away with their own self-published comic book! Suited to both children and adults.(More about Hypercomics
here)
Sept 1,
London Church Street Library, Space Hop Summer Reading Challenge event
Aug 28,
Lakeside Waterstone's Aliens Party!, hosted by Sarah and comics creator
Marc EllerbyAug 24-25:
Edinburgh Book Festival24th, 11:30am - 12:30pm workshop, RBS Tent, Ages 5 - 7:
Monsters & Aliens Let Loose!Tentacles! Googly Eyes! Join the illustrator of You Can't Eat a Princess! and Morris the Mankiest Monster for character design madness.4:30 - 5:30pm, RBS Tent, ages 5-7
Comics workshopProgramme write-up: Illustrator Sarah McIntyre is master of the Pickle Rye world, the home patch of Lettuce the rabbit and Vern the sheep. Her artwork oozes silliness and humour; no wonder she's one of the original Fleece Station artists, a collective whose grand title derives from their love of drawing... sheep! Her work featured in The Guardian and is now published by DFC - bring your own pen and a lot of gusto for the launch of this new title.25th, 10 - 11am, RBS Workshop Tent, ages 7-9
Comics Jam with Vern and Lettuce!1:45-2:45pm, Craigmillar Library, Outreach event
Aug 19:
London Victoria Library, Space Hop Summer Reading Challenge event
Aug 12:
London Cartoon Museum -
Lots of comics & photos11-1pm (11-14 year-olds)
Comics Jam Session:
Meet up with other people who love making comics to take part in an interactive comics making session. Learn how creating comics collaboratively can help overcome writer's block, inject your stories with fresh material and send your characters flying off in directions you never could have imagined. See some of Sarah's comics jams and learn how her recent comics jam with a friend got her a book deal with a major comics publisher. Feel free to bring along your questions and your portfolio for critique and feedback.2-4pm (8-10 year-olds)
Comics Jam Session:
Just like a musical jam session, comics are great fun to make together with other people. Come design characters and set them flying in directions you never could have predicted with this interactive comics game, which can be played again and again, always with new outcomes. Then pull the ideas together to make your comic, put together your own book and learn how you can self-publish it with a minimum of cost or materials.
Aug 11:
Birmingham Children's Reading Partners Roadshow
Aug 9:
London Maida Vale Library, Space Hop Summer Reading Challenge event
Aug 6:
London Cartoon Museum (8-10 year-olds) 11-1pm : Comics Character Design:
Hungry aliens, a manky monster, and a whole host of animals who live in a city tower block have all had starred in Sarah's books and comics. Meet some of Sarah's characters and learn her secret tips on how to create exciting characters that will drive your story forward. Then make your own book!2-4pm: Comics Space Odyssey:
Free-form comic-making drop-in session - all agesAug 4:
Bedford & Putnoe Space Hop library eventsAug 1:
Oxford Caption Comics festival, DFC Library talk with Neill Cameron (
Mo-Bot High), interviewed Darryl Cunningham (
Psychiatric Tales)
July 29:
London You Can't Eat a Princess! Space Hop Summer Reading Challenge event at
Paddington Children's LibraryJuly 20-21:
Leicester You Can't Eat a Princess! Space Hop Summer Reading Challenge events at St Barnabas, Beaumont Leys and Evington libraries. Plus a hop on Eric the Book Bus!
July 8:
London Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators Professional Series, talk with David Fickling. Theodore Bullfrog pub:
Publisher David Fickling and Sarah revealed how they took a revolting manuscript that spent 12 years being turned down by 15 editors and refused by 10 publishers to come up with the lovable - and still absolutely disgusting - character that is Morris. As an added bonus, they also discussed the comic book they are releasing together this autumn as part of the DFC Library series, Vern and Lettuce, and explained how strong character development has been essential to making both books come alive.May 28 & 29:
London MCM Expo, ExCel Centre, sharing a table with the rest of the
Fleece Station! Read about it and see nutty cosplay photos
here!April 30, May 1:
Stratford-upon-Avon Hungry Aliens & Manky Monsters workshops at the
Stratford-upon-Avon Festival of Literature and Bridgetown Primary School
April 24:
Hatfield:
UniComics festival at the University of Hertfordshire
March 27 & 28:
Inverness Highlands International Comic Expo (or 'Hi-Ex'). Activity table and workshop with studio mate
Gary Northfield.
Report and photos here.
March :
Leicester schools book festival, part of the city's £1m
Whatever It Takes reading campaign to help improve achievement in schools.
March 4&5:
London The Discover Centre, Stratford,
workshop reports here and
here.
Feb 9:
Bishop's Stortford, Presentation by Children's Laureate Anthony Browne of the Bishop's Stortford Picture Book Award 2010 for
Morris the Mankiest Monster. Photos
here and
here.
2009Dec 12:
London Reading, signing and crafts session at
The Golden Treasury bookshopNov 21 (Saturday):
Wigtown, Dumfriesshire,
Box of Frogs bookshop.
Photos and write-up of our 'Make your own Monster' session.
Nov 14 (Saturday):
London Panel with
Emma Vieceli and
John Dunning, chaired by Ariel Kahn.
British IBBY/NCRCL MA Conference on the theme
GOING GRAPHIC: COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, Froebel College, Roehampton University.
Nov 7:
London Camberwell
arts & crafts fair at the Well Community Church hall.
Nov 6:
London Little Pencil at the ICA, part of November's Comica Festival. Children watched animations in the cinema, then spent time with me drawing along to my music playlist selection, taking inspiration from the music.
Oct 25:
Cambridge Women in Comics Conference, on a panel with
Asia Alfasi and
Sarah Zaidan. My talk was titled
Comics and Picture Books: women bridging the gap.
Oct 24:
London MCM Expo. Costumed craziness.
Oct 21:
Havering 2 comics workshops with
Gary Northfield at South Hornchurch Library and Newton's Primary School.
Oct 17-19:
Dublin Children's Book Festival. 4 workshops: at the comics festival, Waterstone's Jervis Street, Eason's O'Connell Street and Central City Library. In conjunction with
Irish 24 Hour Comic Day Oct 10:
Cheltenham Literature Festival, panel discussion about kids comics with
Garen Ewing (
The Rainbow Orchid) and
John Dunning (
Salem Brownstone)
Oct 3-4:
Birmingham British International Comics Show officially launched
Morris the Mankiest Monster. Sarah ran a 'Make your own Monster' workshop at her table and interviewed Japanese manga artist
Michiru Morikawa. (Lovely review
here.)
Aug 15 & 16:
Caption comics festival, Oxford - Sunday the 16th, 12:30-1:30
Comics and Picture books: crossing the divideHave the boundaries between comics and picture books shifted in recent years? Sarah McIntyre discussed exciting opportunities she has noticed in crossover works and publisher interest, exploring the potential for comics creators to tap into both industry categories to support themselves and inject their own work with fresh energy.Also appeared on a panel with Jenni Scott and
Shane Chebbo and Sean Azzopardi (
seanazz) from 4-5pm on Saturday the 15th.
July 27:
Laydeez do Comics, 6:30-8:30pm a presentation of some stuff I was working on, followed by a discussion of
The Arrival by Shaun Tan, at
The Rag Factory.
(Write-up here)June 19: Institute of Education, University of London.
Between the covers': improving literacy through bookmaking; led a seminar with
Nikki Gamble.
July 10:
UK Literary Association Conference, University of Greenwich. Illustrator panel with David Roberts and Petr Horacek
May 23:
London MCM Expo, ExCel Centre. More photos
here and
here!
April 25:
The Crystal Palace Children's Book Festival. DFC comics workshops and exhibition.
April 24:
St Bride Library Conference, St Bride Library, Fleet Street, London. Talk with David Fickling,
April 4:
Oxford Literary Festival, DFC panel with David Fickling, the Etherington Brothers and John Aggs
March 28:
UK Web & Mini Comix Thing, London
Feb 1:
Alternative Press Fair, London
Jan 27:
Camberwell art college two-hour MA Illustration seminar on making picture books and comics
Jan 24:
Zinefest, London
200823 Nov:
Comica at the ICA, DFC panel
22 Nov:
SCBWI conference workshop with Layn Marlow
26 Oct:
London MCM Expo, DFC table
28 Sept:
Bath Kids Lit Fest, DFC panel
10 Aug:
Caption, Oxford, DFC panel
12 July:
Cartoon Museum, DFC comics workshop
